@cjk [ audio ]

[signifies]

Hello everyone. My name is Clark. I'll try and keep this brief.

Firstly, I've drawn up a blank list and placed one on the bulletin board on each housing floor. If those with medical expertise feel comfortable, they can put their name, residence here, and — if they have one — specialisation, in case of an emergency. We have several residents who aren't from the same point in time, so if you'd like to volunteer to update someone's medical knowledge, please mark your name with an asterisk.

Secondly, ah-- [ a bit of a laugh. ] I'm from Kansas, which some of you might recognise as being host to some pretty bad weather. Now, I'm not going to say I'm paranoid, but-- I like to think ahead. So, I've made up some kits with some of the usual survival paraphernalia back home and distributed them between floors. Feel free to help yourselves if you need them.

[ No one has to use them, but he’d rather everyone knows they're available. ]

Thank you for your time.

( all replies in audio unless otherwise stated )

Comments

[signifies]

It's peaceful, if you're looking for that.

[ It never felt like a life Clark could call his own. he knows he has a different purpose. ]

Here, could you help fold these? They'll go at the bottom of the box.

[starspangled]

I don't know what I'm looking for most of the time.

[he nods, taking them and starting to fold, creases a little sharper than they actually need to be. sometimes the military just comes back to him.]

So I guess this is as good a place as any.

[signifies]

[ Clark has a sense for loneliness in others, having experienced it his whole life. He glances sidelong at Steve, unsure if he should say anything. ]

I wouldn't know about here just yet.

[ Fitting in somewhere isn't the same as belonging, and Clark wouldn't know what that contentment looked like even if it hit him in the face with kryptonite brass knuckles. ]

What did you do at home, Steve?

[starspangled]

I was a soldier. After that I was part of a team.

[he doesn't mention that the band sort of broke up before he came here, but that feeling of loneliness intensifies.

still, he has a smile on his lips as he looks over at clark.]

You?

[signifies]

I'm a reporter. Here they gave me a job with the paper. What about you?

[starspangled]

First responder.

[steve smiles a little at that.]

I bet selling newspapers would've been their second choice. I did a lot of that.

[signifies]

[ Paperboys have been phased out since the Internet and laws against child labour. He'd expect someone from the fifties or seventies to say that, not someone from 2016.

Steve can't be older than his late twenties. ]

They're still common where you're from?